Latest / VOCM On Demand / VOCM News Update Late-Day June 9th
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm zach power police officers, but there were on the
- 0:03Speaker 1: nineth Stabulary took to the stand today in a second
- 0:05Speaker 1: degree murder trial of three people accused of murdering a
- 0:08Speaker 1: man on Golf Avenue in Saint John's two years ago.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Bo CM's Richard Duggan reports.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Brad Morrell, Jason Wells, and Veronica Whalen all appeared in
- 0:18Speaker 2: person to hear several RNC officers recount how they responded
- 0:21Speaker 2: to the incident, which happened on July thirty first, twenty
- 0:24Speaker 2: twenty four. One of the officers described a pretty chaotic
- 0:27Speaker 2: scene when she arrived, including about eight medical professionals working
- 0:30Speaker 2: on the victim, thirty one year old Dylan Jordan, the
- 0:33Speaker 2: realization that several suspects were inside of a nearby home,
- 0:37Speaker 2: members of the public watching the situation unfold, and the
- 0:40Speaker 2: weather conditions changing from bright and sunny to torrential rain.
- 0:43Speaker 2: The officer says she saw what appeared to be a
- 0:45Speaker 2: firearm in a hospital Latex glove at the scene, and
- 0:48Speaker 2: another officer says a hammer was recovered as evidence from
- 0:51Speaker 2: mccarbage bin outside a home. During cross examination, each of
- 0:54Speaker 2: the officers were asked about an apparent injury around one
- 0:57Speaker 2: of Morel's eyes and blood on his face. He is
- 1:00Speaker 2: said to have refused medical attention. Some lengthy surveillance footage
- 1:03Speaker 2: from Saint Clair's Hospital and the lead up to the
- 1:05Speaker 2: incident was also shown in court. It also showed several
- 1:08Speaker 2: bystanders rushing over to help the victim after the incident.
- 1:12Speaker 2: Richard Duggan VOCM Local News Now.
- 1:15Speaker 1: A Barry, Ontario pilot who flew some nine hundred domestic
- 1:19Speaker 1: and international flights, logging tens of thousands of hours, is
- 1:22Speaker 1: facing criminal charges after passing himself off as a captain
- 1:26Speaker 1: without ever obtaining the associated air transport license. Jeff Wall,
- 1:31Speaker 1: a former licensed Air Canada pilot with a twenty seven
- 1:33Speaker 1: year career, is alleged to have used forged documents falsely
- 1:37Speaker 1: proving his credentials as a captain on a variety of
- 1:40Speaker 1: aircraft including Boeing seven sixty seven, seven seventy seven and
- 1:44Speaker 1: seven eighty seven. The original police provide the update today
- 1:48Speaker 1: and lead investigator, Deputy Sergeant Chad Mitchell says the investigation
- 1:52Speaker 1: was launched in February after a Transport Canada complaint.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Anomalies were detected within the pilot license documentation he presented.
- 2:00Speaker 3: The Transport Canada regulatory investigation later commenced, concluded, and was
- 2:06Speaker 3: followed by this criminal investigation.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Suspended Saint john City councilor Tom Davis is shedding more
- 2:11Speaker 1: light on an incident that prompted a Code of conduct
- 2:14Speaker 1: complaint against him. An investigation was launched and Davis was
- 2:17Speaker 1: suspended for a month with pay at a council meeting
- 2:20Speaker 1: last week and will undergo sensitivity training. Davis told VOCM
- 2:25Speaker 1: Open Line with Brian Callahan that the incident in question
- 2:28Speaker 1: is not a blow up.
- 2:29Speaker 4: There was a private conversation that was overheard where I
- 2:33Speaker 4: was referencing a podcast I'd listened to and unbeknownst to
- 2:37Speaker 4: me was somewhat you know, it was very sensive subject
- 2:41Speaker 4: for someone who overheard it. That was the catalyst that
- 2:44Speaker 4: led to the investigation.
- 2:46Speaker 1: The councilor, who was elected in twenty twenty four. Davis
- 2:49Speaker 1: says that he's looking forward to his training and getting
- 2:51Speaker 1: back to business and representing the people of Saint John's
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